From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 21:25:03 MST
Alexander Sheppard wrote:
> Now, in "classical" socialism (or communism) of the form I've seen
> in Russia, the "goal" seems to be to give everyone an equal share
> of the pie. That doesn't work. The really talented people will
> become lazy and the less talented people will develop schemes to
> milk the "system".
Sounds backwards to me. The really talented will milk
the system, quite successfully, and the less talented
will be lazy, and wonder why the system does such a poor
job of satisfying their needs.
Only the self-motivated will be those who will really
contribute voluntarily to the system. As soon as we
learn to modify the human genome and memenome(?) to
make people self motivated, then socialism should work
just fine. Until then, not. spike
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